<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/6 Gordon <<a href="mailto:gbplinux@gmail.com">gbplinux@gmail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div>"Philip Wyett" <<a href="mailto:philip.wyett@gmail.com" target="_blank">philip.wyett@gmail.com</a>> wrote in message <a href="news:7e1f27480806061343k4d7371b0o313890e08e835b08@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">news:7e1f27480806061343k4d7371b0o313890e08e835b08@mail.gmail.com</a>...</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> <br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/6 Gordon <<a href="mailto:gbplinux@gmail.com" target="_blank">gbplinux@gmail.com</a>>:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Installed WUBI 8.04 on a Toshiba Satellite L40 that uses the Realtek 8187<br>WLan chip. I went to this site<br><a href="http://www.datanorth.net/%7Ecuervo/rtl8187b/" target="_blank">http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/rtl8187b/</a> for the driver, followed the<br>instructions there but ran into a problem.<br>On issuing the ./makedrv command, this happened:<br>rm -fr *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.mod.* *.ko *.o *~<br>make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build<br>M=/home/gordon/rtl8187b-modified/ieee80211 CC=gcc modules<br>make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'<br>scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in<br>"/home/gordon/rtl8187b-modified/ieee80211/Makefile". Fix it to use<br>EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.<br>make[1]: *** [_module_/home/gordon/rtl8187b-modified/ieee80211] Error 2<br>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'<br>make: *** [modules] Error 2<br>rm -fr *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko *~<br>make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build<br>M=/home/gordon/rtl8187b-modified/rtl8187 CC=gcc modules<br>make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'<br>scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in<br>"/home/gordon/rtl8187b-modified/rtl8187/Makefile". Fix it to use<br>EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.<br>make[1]: *** [_module_/home/gordon/rtl8187b-modified/rtl8187] Error 2<br>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'<br>make: *** [modules] Error 2<br><br>Then when trying the ./wlan0up command I got this:<br>./wlan0up<br>insmod: can't read 'ieee80211_crypt-rtl.ko': No such file or directory<br>insmod: can't read 'ieee80211_crypt_wep-rtl.ko': No such file or directory<br>insmod: can't read 'ieee80211_crypt_tkip-rtl.ko': No such file or directory<br>insmod: can't read 'ieee80211_crypt_ccmp-rtl.ko': No such file or directory<br>insmod: can't read 'ieee80211-rtl.ko': No such file or directory<br>insmod: can't read 'r8187.ko': No such file or directory<br><br><br>Can anyone divine from all that what has gone wrong and whether it's a<br>problem caused by using WUBI instead of a proper install?<br><br>Thanks<br><font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote> <div><br>See 8187 section near bottom about blacklisted driver: <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=684495" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=684495</a> <br><br>Regards<br><br>Phil<br></div></div><br> </div></div><p> </p><hr> <p></p></blockquote><br> <div><font size="2" face="Arial">I tried that - it said "fatal error, can't find module"</font></div></div> <br>--<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com"></a></blockquote><div><br>There are running issue with the 8187 under hardy. Hardy should be regarded as beta software as it was<br>released way before it should have been. Wait for 8.04.1 next month for a more stable and usable system.<br> Most folks using 7.10 are using the 8187 with no real issues.<br><br>Many folks seem to be going the ndiswrapper route for the 8187: <a href="http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=678094">http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=678094</a><br> <br>You may wish to go this way for now.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Phil<br></div></div>